On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 21:54, Belgarius wrote: > Greetings... > > I've a relatively simple question, regarding system hardware requirements > for ML 8.2 and a few things I intend to put it to use for, and thought I > might save myself a few headaches by asking wiser and more experienced users > than myself. > The system I have installed to is a P3/800 based system, 256M SDRAM, > running a PC100 buss, with a single 20 gig HD, token floppy drive and a CD > ROM. What I hope to accomplish is move my services and users from my > present Windows box, to the Linux box. I presently have http, with Perl, > PHP, and MySQL, a FTP server, and a mail server that provide for the overall > needs of my roughly 25 or so users. Things are connected by way of a > bridged ADSL connection, purported to be 768K upstream. The server load is > moderate, I'd say, with around 50K average requests, and around 2 gigs of > bandwidth per day. > The final goal is to meet the above requirements, along with acting as an > Internet gateway for my present Windows box, and the family system. > Overall, the main objective is to remove the servers from the Windows > environment, and rely on Linux to handle those needs, while freeing my > Windows box for my other pursuits, and providing better service for the > users. For some things, Windows does pretty well, running servers isn't one > of them, unless one is keen on rebooting at least daily. > In the opinion of those more accustomed, is the hardware mentioned up to > the task?
I notice that no one has answered this yet, and anybody that's dumping winblows in order to install Mandrake deserves a heaping helping of attention. The more subscribers Mandrake can get in the face of the impending M$ legal threat, the better. Time to fortify and dig in for the big one. The short answer: You hardware is super heap-um big overkill. As a matter of fact, you could probably accomplish what you are attempting to do with a plain Pentium-1 or socket-7 AMD 300-550mhz system. IMO, I think you should put the P3 in as a local workstation somewhere and find you a lesser piece of hardware. A P3/800 is still a nice chunk of hardware; seems like it's a little wasted where you are going to put it. One of the last contracts I had, I was responsible for constructing and assembling several rackmounts that were going in for connection to a dedicated data T1 (no seperate channels), and we had over 100 web sites we were moving from a previous site. The old server was a Pentium Pro 200, and when the new machines went into the rack we went "all the way" up to P2/300's. Bear in mind that we had Red Hat loaded on the Pentium Pro and it had been supporting the whole company previously for two years before we upgraded. No bandwidth problems. In theory, judging from what I've seen, I see no reason why a moderate email/web load would not work fine from a 486 machine. A few years back, I read about some Red Hat admins who were dumping Sendmail (because of some of the same problems we were seeing, namely hi load dropouts) in favor of Qmail. When they did go to qmail, the efficiency was such that they were able to downgrade from a top level Pentium 2 to a 486 machine for all their mail. That was several years ago, but I don't think efficiency matters have changed that much with regard to matters such as email and Apache. The same system ran my present servers fairly well under Windows, > but that's about all it was fit for, and the crashes weren't too awfully > bad. I want to be able to build this box, install things, and be able to > rely on it, not wind up having to upgrade the hardware because it wasn't up > to the task required. Perhaps more memory? Faster buss? Any suggestions > would be gratefully received. > > TIA, > Belgarius BTW, cool name! You not a fan of the "Pawn of Prophecy" series by any chance, are you? L8r, LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ��������������������������������������������������� _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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